Loaded

Yeah.

Other than your com- comment from Loaded Magazine about-

Yeah

... why have I managed to land Anna Friel, you know.

Like I was saying, again, with Suki Waterhouse kind of thing, you know, I think slowly things are starting to change.

Yeah, I think the world is definitely having that kind of, you know, we're having a moment, right? Like where everything is changing, you know, and it's, you know, where back when you were doing Loaded and some of the magazines you were doing, everything was in print then.

And now everything's so online and so digital.

Yes.

I did two days a week teaching and then the rest.

I

mean, I love it from Loaded Magazine to horse wear.

You'll be on the town and country front page before long.

As long as you're comfortable with your decisions, I think that's fine.

I think if you start making decisions based on impatience, trying to rush something kind of because someone else told you to, and so I've always tried to stick to my own, what do I want to represent? And even when I was a weather girl, there was a lot of pressure to, um, to do lads magazines, and that was a big culture back then, to be on the front cover of Loaded magazine or whatever.

And I just remember sticking up for myself and saying, "No." And I said, "I just don't think that's the right look for the girl I want to represent." And it doesn't mean I'm against it.

It just means for me, my thing was I just want to show that you don't have to do that.

In my platinum package, you also get six weeks of gurning thrown in.

[laughs] I, uh, I used to write this, uh, four-frame comic strip for Loaded magazine called Chris Baxter: Life Coach.

Right.

Um, for a few months.

But the thing is, what happened was, Oasis' first single was also released within a week of ours, and I can't remember which way round it was.

And at the same time, I think Loaded magazine was about to start or had just started a year before, and the zeitgeist was to go down that sort of laddy, football-y avenue.

And so, yeah, suddenly we were no longer Flavour of the Month.

By the time...

it? I studied theology.

Oh, really? So I started off, weirdly, before Loaded magazine, which is a strange swerve.

Very strange swerve.

Well,